reconcilable

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Again, these characters are not people I analyze; they’re pieces of verbal artifice I invent, and whose almost limitless complications I try—again, using words—to make reconcilable.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2018

If the issue isn’t reconcilable, or if talking to your colleague directly didn’t work, tap the chain of command—but be sure to have a solution in mind.

From Time • Jun. 20, 2017

Interpretation is a swan-dive into an ocean of possibilities, all of them entrancingly plausible, and none quite reconcilable.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2017

What Boston demonstrated was that the twin dreams of making Olympics hosting more egalitarian and more affordable may ultimately not be reconcilable.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2016

But a century afterwards both notions were reconcilable, even in ordinary minds.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst